Boom! Radio @ WWFE-AM In Miami.

The producers of South Florida’s leading Latin rock radio show, Boom! Radio, announced this week that they will leave WKAT-AM (1360), their station for the past year, in anticipation of that station’s format change from brokered Spanish-language programming to classical music.

Boom! Radio will move to WWFE-AM (670) beginning Aug. 31, says Kike Posada, the show’s host and a veteran of the Latin rock scene.

”I’d call it a miracle,” Posada says. “After all the doors that were closed on us, this one opened up.”
WKAT station managers did not return calls for comment, but Posada says WKAT, which resurrected Boom! in June 2001 after the show had been off the air for three years, will switch to classical music Sept. 15.

Though Boom!, broadcast daily on WKAT, will air from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday and Sunday on WWFE, Posada says station managers have promised the show will begin broadcasting daily in October if ratings merit the increase.

For WWFE, a bastion of anti-Castro politics, Boom! could bring an important audience: young people, says Jorge Rodríguez, president and CEO of Fenix Communications, which owns WWFE.

”We’ve wanted to give young people a place on this station for some time,” Rodríguez says.